Tag Archives: Sherpa

Langtang 3 – Top To Bottom and an Avalanche

Sonam moves up singing, chatting, all the while moving through his Tibetan Mala beads. Mingmar dances from stone outcroppings to thatches of stems and back. Always he is looking for medicine, herbs, or simply that which matters to him – … Continue reading

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Langtang 2 – Across What Was

“We cannot change too much of what is there, but we can manage what we see and how we move forward”, Uncle Dawa says at one point over a tea. As with so much in my own frames of life, tea is a conduit and facilitator. It is a fluid that soothes, and stimulates. Continue reading

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Spring 2019 – Part 2 – Solukhumbu – The Spires and The Everest Three Passes Trek

  The second part of our journey took us from the high arid zones of Mustang right into the rumbling, high spires of Solukhumbu. The lands of the Sherpa people, the Rai people and names like Everest, Lhotse, Nuptse, and … Continue reading

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Mustang and its Eastern Route – Spring 2019 – Part 1 The Khampa Route

Trekking along the Khampa Route, along the eastern flank of Mustang, Nepal Continue reading

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